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Author : Wayne N. Aspinall
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Colorado
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Author : Wayne N. Aspinall
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Colorado
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Author : Leroy R. Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803272613
This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Främont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : National parks and reserves
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Author : Ron Kessler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865342705
The ancient trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Crescent Junction near Green River, Utah was a good route for travel for the early settlers. The sixteen diaries or journals in this book give individual perspectives to the adventures and difficulties encountered on these treks.
Author : Jack Nelson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Colorado
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Old Spanish Trail
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Author : Michael D. Kane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493060961
William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard. Born in Vermont, William Lewis Manly was drawn out west by the lure of gold. Previous scholarship claims that the Yankee frontiersman floated only 290 miles down the Green River to the Uinta Basin, but author Michael D. Kane’s research of primary source materials led him to the conclusion that Manly actually traveled 415 miles, all the way to what is now Green River, Utah. This would make Manly the first to explore much of the Green River by boat—twenty years before John Wesley Powell’s famous expedition. Determined to prove his theory and establish Manly’s legacy as a trailblazer, Kane conducted research and then built his own wooden canoes and made the trip, tracing Manly’s footsteps and comparing notes with the earlier traveler. Country Never Trod follows Manly’s little-known expedition down the Green River and his overland trek through some of the most desolate stretches of Utah, interspersed with Kane’s journal entries and photographs documenting his own trip.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Old Spanish Trail
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
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Author : Mike Milligan
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1646425456
Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwater—a relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in the Southwest—and its lasting significance to the study of the Upper Colorado River. Thousands of recreational river runners have pushed this backwater place into the foreground of modern popular culture in the West. Westwater represents one common sequence in western history: the late opening of unexplored territories, the sporadic and ultimately often unsuccessful attempts to develop them, their renewed obscurity when development doesn’t succeed, their attraction to a marginal society of dreamers and schemers, and the modern rediscovery of them due to new cultural motives, especially outdoor recreation, which has brought many people into thousands of remote corners of the West. This expanded edition brings to light historical events and explores how Westwater’s location greatly contributed to early Grand (Upper) Colorado River boaters’ knowledge and how the lush Westwater Valley and Cisco became critical stops for water, wood, and grass along the North Branch of the Old Spanish Trail. Other new additions include explorer Ellsworth Kolb’s unpublished manuscript describing his 1916–1917 boating experiences on the Grand and Gunnison Rivers; two stories relating to Outlaw Cave, one of which expands upon the mystery of the outlaw brothers; a letter from James E. Miller to Frederick S. Dellenbaugh in 1906 revealing new information about his boating excursion with Oro DeGarmo Babcock on the Grand River in 1897; and a portion of botanist Frederick Kreutzfeld’s little-known journal of 1853 that describes Captain John W. Gunnison’s railroad survey. Loaded with extensive information and river-running history, Milligan’s guide is sure to enhance readers’ knowledge of the Upper Colorado River and Grand Canyon regions. Boaters, river guides, scholars of the American West, and historians of the Colorado, Green, and Gunnison Rivers or the Old Spanish Trail will gain much from this new edition.